June 7, 2006

Civil trial begins in doctor's slaying

An article about a wrongful death case against a Massachusetts physician accused in the strangulation death of another doctor he had been dating includes a comment by professor Peter Henning of the WSU Law School . Law enforcement authorities did not file charges at the time of the incident over a decade ago and Henning says the plaintiff, who is the mother of the victim, will have difficulty proving the case. He points out that it is "not easy to win when the prosecutors have passed on bringing a case."

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